Finally!!

Well I finally made it back into the 240's.....only by 0.2lbs but I'll take it! The weightloss has definitely slowed down but I've now lost a total of 23.2lbs since January 18th. Unfortunately, I haven't been quite as focused as I was the first 6 weeks....and then there's always my weekly work schedule which has really started to wear on me.

At the beginning of the year I decided I would quit my 2nd job by the end of May but as the date was getting closer I started getting more and more anxious about letting go of the extra income. It hit the point where any time I thought about giving notice, my stomach started to tie up in knots and I felt my heartbeat start to quicken. It's been such a difficult couple years financially that the thought of losing that income started to really scare me. I asked a couple friends to really pray with me for direction so I could make a decision and truly be at peace with it either way. As part of this process I also took another look at what the financial picture would be without the extra income and was surprised to see that I can still continue the journey toward being debt free....albeit a bit slower, it's still a reasonable amount of time. So with as much as I want my life back and knowing I can still accomplish my goal of being debt free I came to a place of prayerfully deciding that unless something happened that would be the equivalent of God knocking me upside the head with a 2x4 indicating I needed to keep the 2nd job.....I'm giving my notice at the beginning of May!!!! Yeah!

So on my morning break I told Lori about my decision and the whole 2x4 scenario. For the first time rather than anxiety I felt something very different.....excitement!!! I was totally excited, even bubbly inside. Lori later told me she walked away thinking that if the tenants of my rental house didn't renew their lease that would equate to my 2x4 upside the head. The really cool thing is that within a couple hours of that conversation I received a text from the property manager advising me that the tenants had just called asking to extend the lease for another year. :-) Thank you Lord for your amazing timing and rich sense of humor. So now it's just a matter of hanging in there for another 10 weeks or so and I'll have my afternoons and evenings free....just in time for Summer. Whew!

Now I just need to regain my focus and really zero in on my goal. I have to stayed focused on continuing to lose weight while improving my health and fitness. Once I'm a little further down the road, we can talk about --- triathlons!